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eads, arms or legs; they are only bestowed 21 322 condition of gods. on a few heroes and animals, as some of the greek giants are ekaroyyetpe. such forms are quite common in the hindu and slav systems: vishnu is represented with four arms, brahma with four heads, svantovit the same, while porevit has five heads and rugevit seven faces. yet hecate too is said to have been threeheaded, as the eoman janus was two-faced, and a laceda3monian apollo four-armed^ khuvera, the indian god of wealth, is a hideous figure with three legs and eight teeth. some of the norse gods, on the contrary, have not a superfluity, but a deficiency of members: osinn is one-eyed, tyr one-handed, hogr blind, and logi or loki was perhaps portrayed as lame or limping, like hepha3stus and the devil. hel alone has a dread

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u (matsya avatar: trump: 30 :ra and many others :surya (as sun :31 :thoum-aesh-neith, mau, ka :agni (tejas) yama (as god of: beshunt, horus, tarpesheth: last judgment: 32 :sebek, mako :brahama :32 "bis :satem, ahapshi, nephthys:(prithivi: ameshet :31 "bis :asar:(akasa: 310& 311 table i: xxxiv: xxxv :key scale: some greek gods: some roman gods: 0 :pan: 1 :zeus, iacchus :jupiter: 2 :athena, uranus :janus: 3 :cybele, demeter, rhea, here :juno, cybele, saturn, hecate: 4 :poseidon :jupiter: 5 :ares, hades :mars: 6 :iacchus, apollo, adonis :apollo: 7 :aphrodite, nike :venus: 8 :hermes :mercury: 9 :zeus (as air, diana of :diana (as moon: ephesus (as phallic stone: 10 :persephone (adonis, psyche :ceres :11 :zeus :jupiter: 12 :hermes :mercury: 13 :artemis, hecate :diana: 14 :aphrodite :venus: 15 :a

ter: 5 :ares, hades :mars: 6 :iacchus, apollo, adonis :apollo: 7 :aphrodite, nike :venus: 8 :hermes :mercury: 9 :zeus (as air, diana of :diana (as moon: ephesus (as phallic stone: 10 :persephone (adonis, psyche :ceres :11 :zeus :jupiter: 12 :hermes :mercury: 13 :artemis, hecate :diana: 14 :aphrodite :venus: 15 :athena :mars, minerva: 16:(here :venus: 17 :castor& pollux, apollo the :casto& pollux (janus: diviner: 18 :apollo the charioteer :mercury: 19 :demeter (borne by lions :venus (repressing the fire of: vulcan: 20:(attis:(attis) ceres, adonis: 21 :zeus :jupiter (pluto: 22 :themis, minos, aeacus, and :vulcan: rhadamanthus :23 :poseidon :neptune: 24 :ares :mars: 25 :apollo, artemis (hunters :diana (as archer: 26 :pan, priapus (erect hermes :pan, vesta, bacchus, priapus: and bacchus: 27 :a

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sion. there is another blinding my mind. there is another forcing my head down in sleep (it's very difficult to talk at all, because an impression takes such an immense time to travel from the will to the muscles. naturally, i've no idea of time) i have gone up again to the child, led by two angels, abasing my head. this child seems to be the child that one attempted to describe in "the garden of janus" every volition is inhibited. i have tried to say a lot, but it has always got lost on the way. holy art thou, o more beautiful than all the stars of the night! there has never been such peace, such silence. but these are "positive" things. singing praises of things eternal amid the flames of first glory, and every note of every song is a fresh flower in the garland of peace. this child danc

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losed for the purpose" the equinox the official organ of the a. a. the review of scientific illuminism an. v vol. i. no. ii. sun in libra september mcmix o.s "the method of science--the aim of religion" london simpkin, marshall, hamilton, kent& co.ltd. contents page editorial 1 liber o 11 the herb dangerous (part ii) the psychology of hashish. by oliver haddo 31 reviews 90, 104, 385 the garden of janus. by aleister crowley 91 the dream circean. by marital nay 105 the lost shepherd. by victor b. neuburg 131 a handbook of geomancy 137 the organ in king's chapel, cambridge, by g. h. s. pinsent 162 a note on genesis 163 the five adorations. by dost achiha khan 186 illusion d'amoureux. by francis bendick 187 the opium-smoker 191 postcards to probationers. by aleister crowley 196 the wild ass. b

ur wardens, the stones in the great wall of arhans that guards humanity. we have been with james thomson and watched the dreadful seeker go his unending round to the death-places of love and faith and hope; we have passed out of the doomed triangle into the infinite circle of emerald that girdles the universe, the circle wherein stands he, the master whose name is octinomos. a.c. 90 the garden of janus by aleister crowley the garden of janus i the cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. the vault yet blazes with the sun writhing above the west, brave hippodrome whose gladiators shock and shun as the blue night devours them, crested comb of sleep's dead sea that eats the shores of life, rings round eternity! ii so, he is gone whose giant sword shed flame into my bowels; my blood's bewit

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grown on him until he can no longer slay either himself or another. a dweller in the glass houses of fad, he has thrown stones at the fishy god. a society shimei, he has spat against the wind, and his beard is befouled. true, every thought of shaw is a great thought; and so equable and far- seeing is the artist, that its contradictory appears with it. his births are all siamese twins; his god is janus; his sign is gemini. but his end is (i fear) not to rise above the equilibrium of contraries by a praeter-hegelian dialectic, but to sink wearily between his two stools, a lamentable loon. this nulli secundus, inflated with fermenting grape-nuts! for in all that mass of analysis lucid and terrible i cannot recall a single line of beauty, rarely a note of ecstasy; with one exception (john tan

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ompanionship accompanies spare s twilight journeys through the spirit worlds. equality with the beasts seems paramount to his vision. spare s obsession with the hybrid and grotesque in nature and supernature, something which takes in the full spectrum of ovidian metamorphoses, suggests in the artist s mind a vision of the active trafficking of creatures between one world and the other. all of the janus-headed, multi-faced, theriomorphic swarms which proliferate in spare s paintings threaten to break out of their world and spill into ours. the soul is the ancestral animals. a.o.s spare is a sorceror and a shamanic artist he attempts to represent the occult, the hidden, the unseen, to illustrate the unseeable, to portray sensations and subconscious energies: to delineate and draw into focus

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they maintained that the serpent had to be constantly called upon and to be thanked for the signal service it had rendered humanity. for it taught adam that if he ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he would raise his being immensely by the learning and wisdom he would thus acquire. such was the exoteric reason given. it is easy to see whence the primal idea of this dual, janus-like character of the serpent: the good and the bad. this symbol is one of the most ancient, because the reptile preceded the bird, and the bird the mammal. thence the belief, or rather the superstition, of the savage tribes who think that the souls of their ancestors live under this form, and the general association of the serpent with the tree. the legends about the various things it repre

n itself; and, taking these "robes" the solar cosmic veil, for the sun itself, the physicists have declared its luminosity to be due to combustion and flame, and have mistaken the vital principle of that luminary for a purely material thing, and called it "chromosphere* we have hypotheses and theories only so far, not law- by any means[[footnote(s* brutal but frank materialism is more honest than janus-faced agnosticism in our days. monism is the pecksniff of modern philosophy, turning a pharisaical face to psychology and idealism, and its natural face of a roman augur, swelling his cheek with his tongue- to materialism. the monists are worse than the materialists; because, while looking at the universe and psycho-spiritual man from the same negative stand-point, the latter put their case

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escaped from the projects, and accessed the memories of what happened to them. they have become increasingly vocal in the last ten years, although the mainstream media refuses to report their stories. one mind-control victim told me how he witnessed human sacrifice ceremonies at montauk involving william f. buckley, the well known american publisher and bohemian grove member, who heads the elite janus mind control operation based at nato headquarters in belgium. arizona wilder says she has had similar experiences with buckley. the montauk mind-slave claims that the knowledge he learned in these projects showed him how the reptilians shape-shift. he said there are locked sequences and open sequences of dna. open codes manifest as a physical characteristic while closed codes do not. the rep

lar cults. the crow of the cock also announces the arrival of the sun. remember, too, that basilisk, the mythical king of the serpents, became interchangeable with the term "cockatrice. it was said that the basilisk was born of the cocks egg and in decorative heraldry the basilisk had the head and legs of a cock, a snake-like tail, and the body of a bird covered with serpent scales. the roman god janus, who held the keys, was fused into "peter" when christianity was founded in rome in the form we know it today- janus was eannus, a name for nimrod in babylon. even in the early years of the roman church, which was supposed to have been founded on the "rock" of peter, there is no mention of this guy. he was added to the story as the priesthood continued to put the whole fantasy together. the

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ith all the astrological symbols and he saw inside the vacuum-sealed vaults whichcontain thousands of ancient esoteric books which have been stolen and hoarded overhundreds of years of religious dictatorship and so taken out of public circulation. theroman church and the babylonian brotherhood are one and the same.nimrod was also eannus, the god with two faces, who was later known to theromans as janus. one of the anunnaki brothers, enki the serpent god, was alsofigure 6: the fleur-de-lis, symbolof the babylonian trinity of nimrod,queen semiramis and tammuz,among other things. 53known as ea. the freemasonic eagle with two heads looking left and right, east andwest, is symbolic of nimrod in the role of eannus, and i would suggest that the eagle issymbolic of the winged draco. eannus, it was

tablished a governing body theycalled the grand council of pontiffs, a name later transferred to the church of rome.11the babylonian high priest, who instructed the inner circle initiates, was known as..peter, meaning the great interpreter. the feast day of the christian st peter wastraditionally celebrated on the day the sun entered the astrological house of aquarius,the very day that eannus and janus were honoured!12 the babylonian religion, like allthe look-alikes that were to follow, consisted of two levels. the masses weremanipulated into believing superstitions and into taking symbolic stories literally, whilethe chosen initiates were given the real knowledge on penalty of death if they everrevealed it. in this way the truth about life, human potential, history and the reptilianagend

get thee behind me satan: thou art an offence unto me: forthou savourest not the things that be of god, but those that be of men.20 the rock isclassic mystery school symbolism, as is the corner stone associated with jesus and stillused in freemasonic symbolism today. peter is supposed to be the custodian of the keysto heaven, but this is just a rerun of the mystery school symbol of the two-faced janus,custodian of the key to the temple of wisdom and the keys to heaven held by mithra.and janus was eannus, a title for nimrod in babylon. the gold and silver keys of stpeters alleged successor, the pope, are more symbols of the secret doctrine. the popesand those who control them know what all this stuff really means. gold and silver are theprecious metals used to symbolise the sun and the moo

bruces, totake over scotland all those centuries ago. belgium, this little country between franceand the netherlands, is also the home of the european union, na to, and, i am told, amassive computer centre where databases on all the people of the world are beingcompiled. it is known apparently as the beast and there are a number of these aroundthe world. an elite mind control operation called the janus group is also based in thena to headquarters. nimrod was eannus, the god with two faces, who was later knownto the romans as janus. the reason that belgium is a headquarters for satanism and somany brotherhood institutions is very simple. the brotherhood created belgium forjust this reason in 1831 and they imposed upon it a reptilian royal line, the house ofsaxe-coburg-gotha, the bloodline o

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sciousness. 17. for instance, the seventeenth path, between tiphareth and binab, is assigned by the sepher yet rah to the element of air. we are far wiser to work it with the rite of the element of air and the holy names assigned thereto, and to approach it through the appropriate tattva, rather than confuse the issue with the associations of the assorted collection of deities, castor and pollux, janus, apollo, merti, and other incompatibles assigned to it by crowley, whose correspondences present an inextricable tangle of associations. mystical qabala page 61 18. the sephiroth should be interpreted macrocosmically, and the paths microcosmically; thus we shall find the clue to the tree in both man and nature. chapter xiii practical work upon the tree 1. if among the readers who have follow

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illage of sibourre, in gascony, france. according to pierre de lancre, she once claimed to have been transported to sea by a demon, where she saw other sorcerers raising storms to sink ships. one day as she was sleeping a demon carried her off to the devil s sabbath, where she awoke to find herself in the midst of a large company. she saw that the principal demon had two faces, like the roman god janus. she did not participate in the revelry, and was transported home. on the threshold she found her amulet, which the demon had removed from her bosom before taking her away. she confessed all that had happened, renounced her practice of witchcraft, and saved herself from the common fate of witches and sorcerers of her day. dactylomancy a term covering various forms of divination practiced wit

such famous mediums as florence cook and wrote many articles published in british periodicals such as light and psychic science. she died may 10, 1944, in london. sources: dallas, helen a. across the barrier. n.p, 1913. comrades on the homeward path. n.p, 1930. comrades on the homeward way. n.p, 1929. human survival and its implications. n.p, 1930. leaves from a psychic notebook. n.p, 1927. mors janus vitae? a discussion of certain communications purporting to be from frederic w. h. myers. london: william rider and son, 1910. the nurseries of heaven. n.p, 1920. objections to spiritualism answered. manchester, england: two worlds publishing, 1916. the victory that overcometh. n.p, 1901. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. dalton, j

metaphysical bookstore in stockton called the new age center. in 1996, she made an extensive trip to egypt and shortly after her return, in january of 1997, she felt led to begin the light messenger as a metaphysical newsletter. in march of 1997, as had many channels of the ascended masters during the 1990s, she also came into contact with an entity who identified himself as an extraterrestrial, janus, who resided on the mothership pegasus, one of a fleet of lightships. in the fall of 1997, she added contacts from extraterrestrials to the light messenger. in november of 1997, she moved to mt. shasta, california. the major content of the light messenger are channeled messages through dombrowski and other channels who have emerged in the post-new age movement centered upon ascension and the

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relative to that named person while holding the paper. it might alternatively be an object that the psychic holds while giving impressions through psychometry, i.e, apparently being sensitive to impressions from that object. toland, john (1670.1722) john toland, first chief of the revived druid movement in england, was born on november 30, 1670, near londonderry, ireland. originally named junius janus, he took the name john to avoid being a butt of jokes by his youthful schoolmates. though raised a catholic, he converted to protestantism as a teenager. some irish protestants saw to his education and eventually sent him to glasgow. he earned his m.a. at edinburgh in 1690. he completed his education in leyden, holland. by the early 1690s, he had begun to hold liberal opinions that questione

15 (1921. tyrell, g. n. m. the personality of man: new facts and their significance. u.k: penguin books, 1947. ziito (fl. fourteenth century) one of the most remarkable magicians that history has left record of. he was a sorcerer at the court of king wenceslaus of bohemia (afterward emperor of germany) toward the end of the fourteenth century. among his more famous exploits was one chronicled by janus dubravius, bishop of olmutz, in his historiae regni boiemiae (history of bohemia, 1552. on the occasion of the marriage of wenceslaus with sophia, daughter of the elector palatine of bavaria, the elector, knowing his son-inlaw s liking for juggling and magical exhibitions, brought a number of morris dancers, jugglers, and other entertainers. when they came forward to give their exhibition zi

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eaving a wife behind. he also saw earth s changed landscape hundreds of years in the future. jananda korsholm eventually moved to the united states and found his way to sedona, arizona, where he works as a channeler, healer, and spiritual counselor. further reading korsholm, jananda, 1995. ufo s, close encounters of the positive kind. http//spiritweb.org/ spirit/ufo-positive-negative-jananda.html janus in his memoirs, air marshal sir peter ho r s l e y, onetime deputy commander-in-chief of the royal air fo rc e s strike command, later eq u e r ry for the royal fa m i l y, recounts a meeting with a self-identified extraterrestrial who was introduced to him as janus. he says the incident took place one winter day in 1954, after an acquaintance, a high-ranking military officer interested in u

ho was introduced to him as janus. he says the incident took place one winter day in 1954, after an acquaintance, a high-ranking military officer interested in ufos and convinced of their friendly intentions, phoned him with a curious message: to go that evening to a house in london s chelsea district. a woman met him at the door and led him into a dimly lit room, where he was introduced to a mr. janus. the stranger immediately asked him to tell him what he knew about ufos. afterw a rd, mr. janus expressed a desire to meet prince ph i l i p, then launched into a two-hour discourse on space travel, visitors from other worlds, cosmology, and philosophy. ja n u s s t ressed the human race s immaturity and its potential to destroy itself. in the course of this c o n versation, horsley came to

l him what he knew about ufos. afterw a rd, mr. janus expressed a desire to meet prince ph i l i p, then launched into a two-hour discourse on space travel, visitors from other worlds, cosmology, and philosophy. ja n u s s t ressed the human race s immaturity and its potential to destroy itself. in the course of this c o n versation, horsley came to believe that the stranger was reading his mind. janus said that advanced observers from distant planets are watching earth, contacting a select few trustworthy terrestrials while trying not to interfere directly in human affairs. once human beings have learned interstellar travel, he said, it is of paramount importance that you have learnt your responsibilities for the preservation of life elsewhere (horsley, 1997. in the meantime, the visitors

lso want to ensure that they leave no conclusive proof of their presence. horsley wrote that there was an odd sequel. shortly after the meeting he prepared a memo and gave it to lieutenant general sir frederick browning, treasurer to prince philip. browning pressed horsley to arrange another encounter. horsley tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to reach the woman at whose flat he had spoken with janus. after a few days he personally went to her residence, only to learn that she had suddenly moved out. the general who had set up the encounter became distant and evasive when horsley got in touch with him. he never saw him, the woman, or janus again. interviewed by british ufologist timothy good, horsley thought it strange that he 134 janus had only a general impression of janus s appearance

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h into the world. according to the testimony of various writers, the festival held by christians on christmas eve used to resemble the feast of lights, celebrated in egypt in honor of neith. the tokens distributed among friends were cakes made of paste in the form of babies. these cakes were called yuledows. dow means to "grow bigger" or "to increase" the kalends of january at rome were sacred to janus and juno to whom sacrifices were offered. the etruscans also worshipped janus who was the god (or goddess) of the year. although this deity does not appear among the twelve gods it is said to be the parent of them all. it was represented as having two faces. upon one were the letters representing 365, and upon the other were the keys of life and death. according to bryant this deity was call

as commemorating the life and death of their savior--the new sun. even gethsemane is marked by characteristics which prove that it is no less interesting to pagans, or, more properly speaking, to the pagan followers of christ, than it is to those of the greek and romish churches. here is a holy tree, and not far distant is a cave of mithras. there is also to be seen a trinity of stones "those of janus (chemosh, petros and ion, all solar terms and connected with the sitting or sinking down to rest of the kuros" messrs. maundrell and sandys, who in 1697 visited all the holy places in and around jerusalem, state that the entire city, but especially the sites of moriah, zion, and suburbs were hotbeds of fire and phallic worship as usually developed still in the east. the topography of ancient

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pass, but equally instructive as to the mingling of christian with heathen ideas, may be drawn from the old legend of fruoto. the blissful birth of the saviour, the new era beginning with him, were employed in drawing pictures of a golden age (p. 695. 793 n) and the state of happiness xliv peeface. and peace inseparable from it. the eoman augustus^ under whom christ was born, closed the temple of janus, and peace is supposed to have reigned all over the earth. now the norse tradition makes its mythic frosi likewise contemporary with augustus, frosi whose reign is marked by peace and blessedness, who made captive giantesses grind heaps of gold for him (p. 531. 871, and had bracelets deposited on the public highway without any one laying hands on them. the poets call gold' miol fro'sa' fruot

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es [or rulers] of hades shall not prevail against it; meaning by petra the rock-temple, and metaphorically, the christian mysteries; the adversaries to which were the old myatery-goda of the underworld, who were worshiped in the rites of lus, adonis, atys, sabazius, dionysus, and the eleusinia. no apoaue peter was ever at rome; but the pope, seizing the scepter of the ponufex maximum, the keys fa janus and cybele, and adorning his christian head with the cap of the magna mater, copied from that of the tiara of brahvmnut, the supreme pontiff of the initiates of old india, became the successor of the pagan high priest, the real peter-roma, or peiroma "nte roman catholic church has two far mightier enemies than the 'heretics' and the 'infidels; and these are comparative mythology and philolog

e christians. cerea was bread, and bacchus was vrine^ the former meaning regeneration of life from the seed, and the latter the grape the emblem of wisdom and knowledge; the accumulation of the spirit of things, and the fermentation and subsequent strength of that esoteric knowledge being justly symbolized by wine. the mystery related to the drama, of eden; it is said to have been first taught by janus, who was also the first to introduce in the temples the sacrifices of 'bread' and 'wine' in commemoration of the 'fall into generation' as the symbol of the 'seed "i am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman" says jesus, alluding to the secret knowledge that could be imparted by him "i will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that i drink it new in the kingdom of g

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and eve were both originally hermaphrodites was revived in the thirteenth century by amaury de chartres. he held among other fanciful notions that at the end of the world-both sexes should be re-united in the same person. some learned rabbis asserted that adam was created double; that is, with two bodies, one male and the other female, joined together by the shoulders; their heads (like those of janus) looking in opposite directions. and that* but the reader will find, in the latter part of the book, plausible theories nay, cogent arguments, scarcely to be refuted not only as to the possible (and likely) incorporation of spirits; but as to the difference of sexes among them, with natural incidents, and apparently contradictory results from their semi-spiritual, semi-bodily rosicrucian con

the intentions of the exterior providence. man has brought all this upon himself, as farther fruits and newer penalties arising from the first great lapse, and in farther proof, in still more degrading and still more disfiguring decadence, of the imbibing of the first sweet poison so deliciously and yet so treacherously (lecherously) brewed by the first great tempter: nameless anonymous with its janus mask, and offering to that phenomenon, man, under its many names. man is another ruin, perhaps, in a series of several previous ruins, of which mortality has lost all trace. the terms superstition and science are counterchanged. in reality science may be the superstition, and superstition the truth (otherwise the science, assumed as truth. scientific men are the most superstitious of any cla

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e united in one head. this is a legitimate method of for to those able to realize the sacred significance of the threefold head a great mystery is revealed. however, in the presence of such applications of symbology in christian art, it is scarcely proper to consider the philosophers of other faiths as benighted if, like the hindus, they have a three-faced brahma, or, like the romans, a two-faced janus. p. 20 always followed by the process of dissolution. according to spencer, however, disintegration took place only that reintegration might follow upon a higher level of being. the chief position in the italian school of philosophy should be awarded to giordano bruno, who, after enthusiastically accepting copernicus' theory that the sun is the center of the solar system, declared the sun to

so the mind bears witness of the spirit, and activity in a still lower plane bears witness of intelligence. thus the mind bears witness of the heart, while the generative system, in turn, bears witness of the mind. accordingly, the spiritual nature is most commonly symbolized by a heart; the intellectual power by an opened eye, symbolizing the pineal gland or cyclopean eye, which is the two-faced janus of the pagan mysteries; and the generative system by a flower, a staff, a cup, or a hand. while all the mysteries recognized the heart as the center of spiritual consciousness, they often purposely ignored this concept and used the heart in its exoteric sense as the symbol of the emotional nature, in this arrangement the generative center represented the physical body, the heart the emotiona

which the allegories were made to reveal their hidden significance. these mystic keys to their sacred writings were called by the jews the qabbalah (cabala, kaballah. the modern world seems to have forgotten the existence of those unwritten teachings which explained satisfactorily the apparent contradictions of the written scriptures, nor does it remember that the pagans appointed their two-faced janus as custodian of the key to the temple of wisdom. janus has been metamorphosed into st. peter, so often symbolized as holding in his hand the key to the gate of heaven. the gold and silver keys of "god's vicar on earth" the pope, symbolizes this "secret doctrine" which, when properly understood, unlocks the treasure chest of the christian and jewish qabbalah. the temples of egyptian mysticism

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his hand and the horns or antlers he wears upon his head. a light-bearer also, hence his title, lucifer. in view of this, he is often represented carrying a blazing torch or candle on his head, which has sprung from between his antlers, in addition to the one he carries in his hand. he is known by a variety of names to witches in addition to that of lucifer: cernunnos, mamilion, robin, dumus, hu, janus or dianus, barabbon or barabbas among others. his symbolism is partly akin to that of thunor, the norse thunder god of battle, and again of pan and dionysus, the classical gods of ecstatic debauch and revelry. in his alignment with fire, he evokes memories of vulcan (hephaestus) and wayland smith. as vulcan is the suitor of venus and pan of diana, so is the horned one the pursuer of habondia

horned, satyr-like mischievous spirit said to be a reformation folklore version of the horned god. he was also known as robin artisson and robin goodfellow. hu. channel island version of the horned one, possibly derived from the welsh-celtic deity, hu gadarn. barabbas. hebrew bar abba meaning son of the father or divine son- reference to the incarnate god. mamilion. derivation unknown. dianus or janus. a twin-faced god of the romans, who guarded the threshold of the house and supervised all beginnings and endings. he is referred to by some witches as alpha and omega, the first and the last. another version of the horned one. janicot. a southern french diminutive of janus or dianus. the devil. literally "little god" derived from early aryan stem div or dev, meaning "holy" or "shining" luci

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

theme of bloodline is clearly implied. but humanrather than divine politics are evidenced, for no god worthy of veneration could be theauthor and conveyor of such powers. many kings claimed descent from the ancientbloodlines. charlemagne, for instance, used the title david to indicate his descentfrom the israelite king of jerusalem.kings wore crowns, and the word crown comes from cronus (kronos, janus, crom, chaos,etc) which was the ancient name for the planet saturn. somehow, the planet saturn and itssymbolism became confused with that of tiamat, which was thought to be the second sunthat fell to earth. kings of the earth were said to rule as saturn, or for saturn. the hebrewsidentified saturn with lucifer or satan, god of restriction, materialism, negativity, andchaos, who also fell fro

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

lso said to be that of a goat. the attendees of the sabbat bring new meaning to the term ass kisser, as they are largely forced to kiss the stinking, demonic face on baphomet s rear-end; only the high-ranking witches and warlocks may kiss the goat head itself. the act of kissing the anus of baphomet is symbolic of corruption. because of his two faces, this baphomet character is often equated with janus, the roman god of gates and time. the face on the devil s posterior is said to be without the power of speech, and maintains a demonic expression. sometimes baphomet would arrive as a extremely pale man, whose flesh is ice-cold, wasted, and hanging off the bones. this personage s eyes were large and jet-black. another god form baphomet may arrive as was that of the size and shape of a tree t

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

the great work of becoming like lucifer, thus keeping by will developing in the higher octave, being the luciferian sabbat the ecstasy of the light of iblis, the very knowledge and communication of the holy guardian angel or angelic familiar. this is the essence of the great work, the bare root or essence of what the focus of black magick and luciferian witchcraft/sorcery entails. a study of the janus-headed adversary is essential in the context of the sabbatic/luciferian path as well as others. in the brotherhood of saturn the god of the saturnian sphere is baphomet temohpab, being a angel-demon of both a positive and negative side. in azothoz, lucifer is the baphometic spirit which presents in lyrical prose the sides of the adversary, in terms of sethanic (of set) witchcraft and the lef

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

matical of time, which mows down all before it. saturn. the romans, according to their custom of identifying their deities with those of the greek gods whose attributes were similar to their own, declared cronus to be identical with their old agricultural divinity saturn. they believed that after his defeat in the [18]titanomachia and his banishment from his dominions by zeus, he took refuge with janus, king of italy, who received the exiled deity with great kindness, and even shared his throne with him. their united reign became so thoroughly peaceful and happy, and was distinguished by such uninterrupted prosperity, that it was called the golden age. saturn is usually represented bearing a sickle in the one hand and a wheat-sheaf in the other. a temple was erected to him at the foot of t

to be brought by her as a direct and beneficent gift from the gods. page 208 asculapius. the worship of asculapius was introduced into rome from epidaurus, whence the statue of the god of healing [178]was brought at the time of a great pestilence. grateful for their deliverance from this plague, the romans erected a temple in his honour, on an island near the mouth of the tiber. roman divinities. janus. from the earliest ages janus was regarded by the romans with the utmost affection and veneration, as a divinity who ranked only second to jupiter himself, and through whom all prayers and petitions were transmitted to the other gods. he was believed to preside over the beginnings of all things, hence it was he who inaugurated the years, months, and seasons, and in course of time came to be

ed to preside over the beginnings of all things, hence it was he who inaugurated the years, months, and seasons, and in course of time came to be considered as specially protecting the beginnings of all human enterprises. the great importance which the romans attached to an auspicious commencement, as contributing to the ultimate success of an enterprise, accounts for the high estimation in which janus was held as the god of beginnings. this divinity would appear to have been the ancient sun-god of the italian tribes, in which capacity he opens and closes the gates of heaven every morning and evening. hence he was regarded as the door-keeper of heaven, and also as the presiding deity over all gates, entrances &c, on earth. the fact of his being the god of city gates, which were called jani

eity over all gates, entrances &c, on earth. the fact of his being the god of city gates, which were called jani after him, is ascribed, however, to the following myth:.after the abduction of their women by the romans, the sabines, in revenge, invaded the roman state, and were already about to enter the gates of the city, when suddenly a hot sulphur spring, which was believed to have been sent by janus for their special preservation, page 209 gushed forth from the earth, and arrested the progress of the enemy [179] in his character as guardian of gates and doors, he was also regarded as a protecting deity of the home, for which reason little shrines were erected to him over the doors of houses, which contained an image of the god, having two faces. janus possessed no temples in the ordinar

er as guardian of gates and doors, he was also regarded as a protecting deity of the home, for which reason little shrines were erected to him over the doors of houses, which contained an image of the god, having two faces. janus possessed no temples in the ordinary acceptation of the word, but all the gates of cities were dedicated to him. close to the forum of rome stood the so-called temple of janus, which, however, was merely an arched passage, closed by massive gates. this temple was open only in time of war, as it was supposed that the god had then taken his departure with the roman army, over whose welfare he personally presided. it is worthy of notice, as an evidence of the many wars in which the romans were engaged, that the gates of this sanctuary were only closed three times dur

the 1st of january his most important festival was celebrated, on which occasion all entrances of public and private buildings were decorated with laurel branches and garlands of flowers. his sacrifices, consisting of cakes, wine, and barley, were offered to him at the beginning of every month; and before sacrificing to the other gods his name was always invoked, and a libation poured out to him. janus is usually represented with two faces; in his special function as door-keeper of heaven he stands erect, bearing a key in one hand, and a rod or sceptre in the other. it is supposed that janus was the most ancient king of italy, who, during his life, governed his subjects with such wisdom and moderation that, in gratitude for the benefits conferred upon them, his people deified him after dea

t king of italy, who, during his life, governed his subjects with such wisdom and moderation that, in gratitude for the benefits conferred upon them, his people deified him after death and placed him in the foremost rank among their divinities. we have already seen in the history of page 210 cronus that saturn, who was identified with the greek cronus (god of time, was the friend and colleague of janus. anxious to prove his gratitude to his benefactor, cronus endowed him with the knowledge of past and future [180]events, which enabled him to adopt the wisest measures for the welfare of his subjects, and it is on this account that janus is represented with two faces looking in opposite directions, the one to the past, the other to the future. flora. flora was the goddess of flowers, and was

RITUEL ET DOGME DE LA HAUTE MAGIE BY ELIPHAS LEVI PART II

s embroidered in orange or black silk; round the neck must be worn a lamina of lead, with the character of saturn and the words: almalec, aphiel, zarahiel; the perfumes should be diagridrium, scammony, alum, sulphur and assafoetida; the ring should be adorned with an onyx; the garlands should be of ash, cypress and hellebore; on the onyx of the ring, during the hours of saturn, the double head of janus should be engraved with the consecrated awl. such are the antique magnificences of the secret cultus of the magi. with similar appointments the great magicians of the middle ages proceeded to the daily consecration of talismans corresponding to the seven genii. we have defined a pantacle as a synthetic character resuming the entire magical doctrine in one of its special conceptions. it is th

RUBY TABLET OF SET

t have the power of a thousand thunderstorms. i must search through your language and push away the obstacles in your mind which would recreate my meaning- obscure my truths amid piles of ashes. they spring to life and ever attempt to put words in my mouth. speak not the words of deceit. anton throughout your many years did you see the mysteries unveil in the vapors of night. you wore the mask of janus as you championed the laws of satan, as you made manifest a church in his name. man/daemon, champion of satan, true son of rosemary. you bore the devil's name, and with pride held the banner of satan's church high. mysterious phantom that came into our lives so long ago (yet so near. we will always love you for your understanding of human depth and reality. so profoundly, yet beautifully did

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

h the hands raised and the palms pointing toward the sky. if a person wanted to talk to one of the gods of the underworld, then he or she might stamp on the ground or point his or her hands toward the ground to get the god s attention. in rome the oldest man in the house usually led the family prayers. flour and salt would be thrown into the cooking fire each day to keep the household gods happy. janus, the roman god of the door, was the most powerful of the household gods. he had two faces: one looking into the house and the other looking out. he let friends in and kept enemies out. both greeks and romans consulted specialists to learn about the future, priests or priestesses who acted as messengers between humans and the gods. in greece these priestesses were called oracles, and the most

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

e two-faced entity or two-headed eagle. in the jewish cabala, this strange creation of the feminine and masculine principle is known as "adam kadmon" both adam and eve, a golem. this conjunction of opposites is part of the science of alchemy, or hermeticism, and is especially beloved by occult magicians. in witchcraft, it is known as the joining of sun and moon, and sacred sex rituals are common. janus, roman two-faced "god of the sun" was said to be the "keeper of the keys" to the invisible spirit world. hislop (the two babylons) called him "the source and fountain of all the pagan gods" is the masonic doubleheaded eagle symbolic of his predecessor, janus? thirteen the riddle of the great seal of the united states, and the all-seeing eye of the illuminati's serpent of wisdom and the great

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

egged, and like the ari350ge figure surrounded with animals (plate iii. i. thisrepresentation was regarded in historic times as a form of shiva and is called pasupati "lord of animals".when in relief sculpture pasupati is three-faced, as here; but in figures in the round he has four faces. such arepresentation is a naive attempt to show the all-seeing god, and is found in europe in the four-faced janus.it is still uncertain whether the four-faced form arose independently in india and europe, or whether one isthe prototype of the other; if the latter, the indian appears to be the earlier.though it is not possible to give an exact date to the early legends of the aegean, it is evident that there alsothe horned god flourished throughout the bronze and iron ages.the best known, on account of t

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

zeus ares- apollo- aphrodite- hermes- artemis- demeter aether- coelus juno- jupiter mars- sol- venus- mercury- diana- ceres dagda- lugh danu- llyr morrigan- angus mac og brigit- ogma- cerridwen- cemunnos ymir- odin frigga- frey thor t y balder- freya- loki bragi nanna- nerthus brahman- vishnu mahasakti- indra shiva- krishna surya lakshmi pamati hunuman- chandra soma ganesha daath nephthys hypnos janus arianrhod heimdall aditi- pushan color and visualization as regardie stated in chapter five, once students are familiar with the basic exercise of the middle pillar (and the three pillars, they can expand their practices by visualizing the sephiroth in their appropriate colors: kether is white, chokmah is gray, binah is black, daath is lavender,28 chesed is blue, geburah is red, tiphareth is

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

owing himself to be tricked into a pledge of secrecy. i ask you, brother master magician, if you clearly understand, and heartily agree, these principles? c (with sign) i do. e: it now becomes my duty to inform you that the ceremony through which you have just passed, is in every essential the lesser or infernal rite of the slain god, whose name is john, or some sound similar, as jonah, dionysus, janus, dianus, nu, anu, oannes, on, noah, and many others. this god of water is of the north, because the sun touches his northern limit as he enters the watery sign cancer, and turns towards the south, represented by the goat-gods, set, had, hades, adad, odin, adonis, adonii, atys, etc, who are of the earthly sign capricornus, the southern limit of the sun s journey. as the end of summer is in li

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

este, et sans bras, at assis dans une chaire, 218 on the worship of the arms. he was seated in a pulpit, with some of the women, who were his favourites, always near him. and they are all agreed that it is a great pulpit, which seems to be gilt and very pompous. janette d abadie, of siboro, sixteen years old, said that satan had a face before and another behind his head, as they represent the god janus. de lancre had also heard him described as a great black dog, as a large ox of brass lying down, and as a natural ox in repose. although it was stated that in former times the devil had usually appeared in the form of a serpent, another coincidence with the priapic worship, it appears certain that in the time of de lanere his favourite form of showing himself was that of a goat. at the openi

in the subsequent operations of the witches. the renunciation was frequently renewed, and in some cases it was required avec quelques femmes de ses favorites tousjours pr s de luy. et tous sont d accord que c est une grande chaire qui semble dor e et fort pompeuse. janette d abadie de siboro, aag e de 16 ans, dit qu il avoit un visage devant, et un visage derri re la teste, comme on peint le dieu janus. j ai veu quelque proc dure, estant la tournelle, qui le peignoit au sabbat comme un grand levrier noir: parfois comme un grand boeuf d airain couch terre, comme un boeuf naturel qui se repose. tableau de l inconstance, p. 67. generative powers 219 every time the witch attended the sabbath. janette d abadie, a girl of sixteen, said that he made her repeatedly go through the ceremony of kissi

that he did not dare to carry it away, but left it at the threshold of the door of the room in which she was sleeping. this jeanette said, that the first time she went to the sabbath she saw there the devil in the form of a man, black and hideous, with six horns on his head, and sometimes eight, and a great tail behind, one face in front and another at the back of the head, as they paint the god janus. gratianne, on presenting her, received as her reward a handful of gold; and then the childvictim was made to renounce her creator, the virgin, the baptism, father, mother, relatives, heaven, earth, and all that was in the world, and then she was required to kiss the fiend on the posteriors. the renunciation she was obliged to repeat every time she went to the sabbath. she added that the dev

poignet, elle dict qu il ne l osa emporter, ains le laissa pr s de la porte de la chambre dans laquelle elle dormoit. en revenant au commencement et la premi re entr e qu elle sut au sabbat, elle dit qu eel y vid le diable en forme d homme noir et hideux, avec six cornes en la teste, parfois huict, et une grande queu derri re, un visage devant et un autre derri re la teste, comme on peint le dieu janus: que la dicte gratianne, l ayant pr sent e, recuet une poign e d or en r compense, puis la fit renoncer et renier son cr ateur, la saincte vierge, les saincts, le baptesme, p re, m re, parens, le ciel, la terre, et tout ce qui est au monde, laquelle renonciation il luy faisoit renouveller toutes les fois qu elle alloit au sabbat, puis elle l alloit baiser au derri re. que le diable luy faiso

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

, to take over scotland all those centuries ago. belgium, this little country between france and the netherlands, is also the home of the european union, nato, and, i am told, a massive computer centre where databases on all the people of the world are being compiled. it is known apparently as 'the beast' and there are a number of these around the world. an elite mind control operation called the janus group is also based in the nato headquarters. nimrod was eannus, the god with two faces, who was later known to the romans as janus. black magic rituals are going on all over the world and i have spoken with victims in country after country in england i met a brave woman, then aged 40. the story she told me of her experiences mirrored those of so many others. she was born in darlington in th

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

mhain the end of autumn; it is also, more importantly, the end of the old year and the beginning of the new. celtic new year's eve, when the new year begins with the onset of the dark phase of the year, just as the new day begins at sundown. there are many representations of celtic gods with two faces, and it surely must have been one of them who held sway over samhain. like his greek counterpart janus, he would straddle the threshold, one face turned toward the past in commemoration of those who died during the last year, and one face gazing hopefully toward the future, mystic eyes attempting to pierce the veil and divine what the coming year holds. these two themes, celebrating the dead and divining the future, are inexorably intertwined in samhain, as they are likely to be in any new ye

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

cer, the taking of the herds of geryon; leo, the slaying of the nemaean lion; virgo, the victory over the amazon queen; libra, the death of the erymanthean boar; scorpio, the death of the lernaean hydra; sagittarius, the shooting of the five stymphalian birds; capricornus, taking of the hind alive to mycenae; aquarius, cleaning the stables of augeas; pisces, the capture of the horses of diomedes. janus of the romans is the god of the 12 months and is drawn with 12 altars beneath his feet. he is the same as assyrian ain, ion, jan; on of eastern nations (dunlop s vestiges, 31. john heydon gives the following statements- prosperous numbers are 1 2 3 4 7 9 11 13 14. very good 16 17 19 20 22 23 10 26 27. indifferent 5 6 8 12 15 18 21. very bad 24 25 28 29 30# numbers--th eir occu lt power an d

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

e sun& he is innocent, a child, even, as horus-harpocrates, with the double function in love. over this shall he wear the robe of blue for nuit lined with scarlet for hadith& the sun is gold on his breast. he shall wear the crimson cap for binah, that covereth him, with the white cross of john for kether. he shall wear his ring of a magus& his rosy cross. he shall bear the wand of obeah, with its janus-head of man& woman& its four snakes for his weapons. 3. iacchaion shall wear the black robe lined with gold, for he commeth forth from the darkness of the outer& the light but fringeth him. also black is proper to a neophyte. his head shall be bare, for shamelessness& as the symbol of his function in this working. he shall bear the style& the papyrus for thoth, to write the words of the work

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